Quotes About Autonomy

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Je n'appartient pas à un système, j'ai toujours lutté contre ça. Je vois les gens que j'aime, je vais là où je veux aller, je lis un livre parce qu'il m'attire et non parce qu'il faut absolument l'avoir lu et toute ma vie est comme cela.

We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

You don't have the power to control the people, situations, and circumstances around you. You only have the power to control yourself.

Self-quieting skills refer to a child's ability to calm himself or herself, with no help from an adult, when the child is unhappy, angry, or frustrated.

Das größte Vergnügen im Leben besteht darin, Dinge zu tun, die man nach Meinung anderer Leute nicht fertigbringt.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.

Commands are no constraints.

Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht.

May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;

Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no amount of force or mechanical management can guarantee beauty. Suddenly, without expecting it, beauty is there. Yet ultimately beauty is a profound illumination of presence, a stirring of the invisible in visible form and in order to receive this we need to cultivate a new style of approaching the world.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that they do not view themselves as inevitably tied to the pursuit of the particular conception of the good and its final ends which they espouse at any given time.

He believes he's the only real soul in an ocean of puppets.

Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the hand of any writer. You will be your own man.

I don't think it matters what age you are when you figure it out," Brous said. "I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That's something I can work on. It's what I'm working on now.

I live the life I live, and it's the only life I have. No one else is out there in the universe living my alternate lives, and even if they were, I wouldn't be worrying about them because I have my life to live here, now.

To the women who are done with other people's shit

Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don't want anyone else in it. I don't want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It's my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic.